"Adherence to Islamic beliefs, together with widespread practice of male circumcision, was thought to protect against the risk of HIV infection, and subsequently to account for a comparatively low HIV prevalence in Muslim majority countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East..
30 years into the epidemic, the reality is vastly different.
Furthermore, the number of people newly infected in the WHO Middle East and north Africa region has increased by more than 35% (from 27 000 to 37 000).4 After the eastern Europe and central Asia region, the Middle East and north Africa region has the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world."
Fighting the HIV epidemic in the Islamic world
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